May you be blessed with much JOY this Easter season and always remember the hope we have in the Risen Christ!!
Showing posts with label Easter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Easter. Show all posts
Saturday, April 27, 2019
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Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Celebrating Easter 2016
We celebrated Easter on Sunday with our families and will continue the celebration for many more weeks!! What a time for JOY in celebrating Our Risen Lord! He has given Himself so fully for us and the JOY we feel is just so natural! How can we be anything but full of JOY?!!
We prepared for and celebrated in many ways. Many of these are traditions that we have been doing for many years and they make this season so special!
**Holy Thursday liturgical tea and getting to attend my niece's First Holy Communion that evening!!
**Good Friday liturgical tea and Good Friday service at our church. We also made Hot Cross Buns.
**On Holy Saturday, we went to an Easter egg hunt in the town where I grew up. Yes, I know it wasn't quite Easter, but it's one of those traditions that even *I* did as a kid and we really wanted to pass this on to our own crew. And, I'm fine with our kids getting this little bit of JOY before Easter. We also made our very first Paschal Candle!! And we colored Easter eggs that night. And (yeah, it was a busy day!), I also made our Lamb cake!
**Easter morning Mass!!! Our oldest boys served and our oldest girls sang in the choir. It's so strange to sit in a pew with only four of our kids! We only take up half a pew!! Then we were able to celebrate with both of our families! All my siblings and their husbands, my husbands brother and his wife, both sets of our parents, and all the cousins. Blessed beyond belief to be with our loved ones and to see the JOY of Jesus living in each one of us!!
And a blurry selfie picture of Neil and I, after we took off our "Easter Egg" church clothes. And after having Skirted It Up for Lent, you can bet that I happily changed into jeans for our two Easter parties that day!
**SING!!! Sing your little hearts out!! Make a joyful noise! We learned a new song on Easter and we have all been singing it. I had to record sweet Rose singing it....
And a great song that has many "Alleluia's" in it! Great since we have been fasting from singing Alleluia for 40 days!!
We prepared for and celebrated in many ways. Many of these are traditions that we have been doing for many years and they make this season so special!
**Holy Thursday liturgical tea and getting to attend my niece's First Holy Communion that evening!!
**Good Friday liturgical tea and Good Friday service at our church. We also made Hot Cross Buns.
**On Holy Saturday, we went to an Easter egg hunt in the town where I grew up. Yes, I know it wasn't quite Easter, but it's one of those traditions that even *I* did as a kid and we really wanted to pass this on to our own crew. And, I'm fine with our kids getting this little bit of JOY before Easter. We also made our very first Paschal Candle!! And we colored Easter eggs that night. And (yeah, it was a busy day!), I also made our Lamb cake!
**Easter morning Mass!!! Our oldest boys served and our oldest girls sang in the choir. It's so strange to sit in a pew with only four of our kids! We only take up half a pew!! Then we were able to celebrate with both of our families! All my siblings and their husbands, my husbands brother and his wife, both sets of our parents, and all the cousins. Blessed beyond belief to be with our loved ones and to see the JOY of Jesus living in each one of us!!
**SING!!! Sing your little hearts out!! Make a joyful noise! We learned a new song on Easter and we have all been singing it. I had to record sweet Rose singing it....
And a great song that has many "Alleluia's" in it! Great since we have been fasting from singing Alleluia for 40 days!!
I hope and pray you have a beautiful and blessed Easter season!!!
Monday, March 21, 2016
Catholic Legos for Holy Week
Fone came upstairs out of breath with a huge sigh of relief and such excitement in his voice on Sunday morning and said, "There! It is finished." What you may ask?? This....
And, then a little brother (Max) saw what his big brother had made and wanted to make one himself...
And, that same kid who copied his brother, who loves to draw, drew this...
I love when our kids are thinking about these holy times and incorporate them into their play and art all on their own.
And, then a little brother (Max) saw what his big brother had made and wanted to make one himself...
And, that same kid who copied his brother, who loves to draw, drew this...
I love when our kids are thinking about these holy times and incorporate them into their play and art all on their own.
++Thank you, God!!++
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Sunday, May 4, 2014
Easter 2014
We were blessed to celebrate Easter with both sides of our family this year, and it's always a get-together of food, fun, faith and family!! Can't get much better than that!!!
In lieu of time and my blogging "catch-up" today and multiple posts, I am just sharing this post "in pictures". I will let you do all the matching up and figuring out who is who!! Have fun!!!
++May God continue to love and bless you
and your family this Easter season!!!++
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